staff writer and bloomberg "business week" host of her show on msnbc, melissa harris-perry. and editor in chief of buzzfeed, ben smith, who it must be noted, sam stein drew this to my attention yesterday, according to the "jerusalem post" ben smith is the 28th most important jew in the world. >> thanks for mentioning that on air. >> you're so welcome, it's a big title and congratulations. >> sam was actually 51. >> just saying. >> we'll get into the actual rankings. melissa i want to go to you first on this. i feel like -- there are some things that we should be talking about. including 501(c)4s, our tax code, embassy security, what it means to be a diplomat. intelligence-gathering. but we're actually kind of not really talking about any of that during the scandal week and i read "the new york times" editorial board's assessment of the situation. scandal machine, whatever cranky point republicans had been making against president obama for the last five years, dishonesty, socialism, jack-booted tyranny. they somehow found these incidents were actually the proof they had been